On Harmony Day 2013, I organised to do a mosaics activity. The Harmony Day website is the reference for this activity, called Marvellous Mosaics.
To tune in to this activity, it is recommended that you show some images of mosaics so students have an idea of the types of colours and patterns they might like to create. I have created a prezi of these mosaic images (I thought a presentation would be good but I wanted it to be in the cloud so it would remain available for a while and be accessible from anywhere).
Painting
At the moment my 3/4 class is exploring colours, including mixing their own complementary colours and making tints. Here are some sites that can help you demonstrate this online (of course doing it in real life is even better but it can be tricky to hold a palette vertically!)
This "colour wheel chart mixing theory" YouTube video (for upper primary students at least) covers colour mixing, shading and some detail on the properties of light
The BBC Colour Factory lets you mix secondary and tertiary colours in a fun animated activity but no tints or shades.
Drawing
We used the following shading tutorial successfully with 3/4 classes in 2013:
Drawing portraits of various kinds is fun and this lesson about proportions when drawing faces is good for when you'd like to see some ears not on top of the foreheads:
Here is my list of lesson ideas that I have successfully used in my 3/4 classroom.
Robot Drawings - Since I love technology, I really liked the robot drawing lessons from John Post and adapted by others. This links well to descriptive writing since the idea of the lesson as I use it is to draw out detail and build vocabulary. Some references are the Robot Painting Art Lesson at Deep Space Sparkle and John Post's lesson page.
Colouring
Colouring is great for fast finishers when you need students to work quietly, e.g. when others are still finishing a maths test. It even helps with fine motor and stuff, but I'm not pretending it is a high quality instructional activity. At least if you're going to do some colouring, make it good quality patterns that help students to think logically and think about the colours they are choosing. I like:
To tune in to this activity, it is recommended that you show some images of mosaics so students have an idea of the types of colours and patterns they might like to create. I have created a prezi of these mosaic images (I thought a presentation would be good but I wanted it to be in the cloud so it would remain available for a while and be accessible from anywhere).
Painting
At the moment my 3/4 class is exploring colours, including mixing their own complementary colours and making tints. Here are some sites that can help you demonstrate this online (of course doing it in real life is even better but it can be tricky to hold a palette vertically!)Drawing
We used the following shading tutorial successfully with 3/4 classes in 2013:
- http://www.toadhollowstudio.com/drawing_workshops/Shading_2.html
Drawing portraits of various kinds is fun and this lesson about proportions when drawing faces is good for when you'd like to see some ears not on top of the foreheads:Lesson Ideas
Here is my list of lesson ideas that I have successfully used in my 3/4 classroom.Robot Drawings - Since I love technology, I really liked the robot drawing lessons from John Post and adapted by others. This links well to descriptive writing since the idea of the lesson as I use it is to draw out detail and build vocabulary. Some references are the Robot Painting Art Lesson at Deep Space Sparkle and John Post's lesson page.
Colouring
Colouring is great for fast finishers when you need students to work quietly, e.g. when others are still finishing a maths test. It even helps with fine motor and stuff, but I'm not pretending it is a high quality instructional activity. At least if you're going to do some colouring, make it good quality patterns that help students to think logically and think about the colours they are choosing. I like: